bug#43487: icecat store names in user profiles break bundled addons

2020-09-25 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Mark! On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 01:53:36PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Agreed. When I wrote of implementing an "automatic refresh", I meant > something very different and much more limited than what "Refresh > IceCat" in does: I meant merely to refresh the embedded > store names in the use

bug#43487: icecat store names in user profiles break bundled addons

2020-09-21 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Andreas, Andreas Enge writes: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:48:34AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> To temporarily fix these problems while retaining most of your user >> data, one option is to press the "Refresh IceCat…" button in >> . Choosing this option will reset all your preferences >> a

bug#43487: icecat store names in user profiles break bundled addons

2020-09-21 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Mark, On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:48:34AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > To temporarily fix these problems while retaining most of your user > data, one option is to press the "Refresh IceCat…" button in > . Choosing this option will reset all your preferences > and addons to the IceCat defau

bug#43487: icecat store names in user profiles break bundled addons

2020-09-17 Thread Mark H Weaver
The Guix build of IceCat-68 stores absolute file names of the form /gnu/store/…-icecat-68.…/* within user profiles in ~/.mozilla/icecat/*. For example, ~/.mozilla/icecat/*/extensions.json contains store references of the forms: /gnu/store/…-icecat-68.…/lib/icecat/browser/features/*.xpi and /gnu/st